the wonder years? freshman IV

Subliminal message: Saturday October 18, 2007 Sweet Arrow Lake County Park

1964 Grammy Winner for Best Country & Wester Single was “Dang Me,” Roger Miller

Best Rock and Roll Recording was “Downtown,” Petula Clark . But one of the greatest records of the year was "Heat Wave."

wonder years? freshman I

Important events in the fall of 1964: September 28th, Harpo Marx died, October14th, Krushchev is deposed in USSR, The Man from U.N.C.LE. premiered on television.

wonder years? freshman II

FRESHMAN II

Subliminal message: Sweet Arriw Lake....October 18, 2008...Saturday afternoon..............

the wonder years? freshman V

Freshman V, 1964-1965. Interesting that the class had nearly fifty in the room.
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The top twenty from WABC radio in New York City for 1964:
1 "Hello Dolly"........................................Louis Armstrong
2 "I Want to Hold Your Hand"...........................The Beatles
3 "She Loves You"......................................The Beatles
4 "Where Did Our Love Go"..............................The Supremes
5 "Chapel of Love".....................................The Dixie Cups
6 "Pretty Woman".......................................Ray Orbison
7 "Rag Doll"...........................................The Four Seasons
8 "A Hard Day's Night".................................The Beatles
9 "Everybody Loves Somebody"...........................Dean Martin
10 "Do Wah Diddy Diddy"................................Manfred Mann
11 "I Get Around"......................................The Beach Boys
12 "A World Without Love"..............................Peter and Gordon
13 "Do You Want to Know a Secret"......................The Beatles
14 "The House of the Rising Sun".......................The Animals
15 "Dawn"..............................................The Four Seasons
16 "She's Not There"...................................The Zombies
17 "Baby Love".........................................The Supremes
18 "Under the Boardwalk"...............................The Drifters
19 "Dancing in the Street".............................Martha and the Vandellas

football

Today is Superbowl Sunday, February 3rd, 2008. Time for a football blog.

What was the coach saying at half-time:

A. "Who's winning?

B. "I'm leaving now, I want to beat the traffic home."

C. "You have to remember... no passing to the referee."

D. "Maybe we still have a chance in this year's Pierogie Bowl."

E. "We spent too much time practicing the coin toss."

F. "The half-time show is really awful, we'll stay here until it's over."

G. "Who can concentrate when Get Smart is on tv; I can't wait until the VCR is invented."

H. "Think of the bright side, we are saving on Gatorade this year."

I. "I know, those East Penn bus rides upset my stomach too."

J. "I think it's time we said a prayer to St. Jude."

I. None of the above

subliminal message: I will go to Sweet Arrow Lake County Park, on Saturday October 18, 2008

The Wonder Years? freshman VI

1964

Yes. 1964. It was the year of "Oh Pretty Woman" and "Goldfinger." It was the year that Lyndon Johnson won in a landslide on a peace platform and Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston.

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Fr. Dominic Tracy, O. Carm.

- In Memorium -

Rev. Robert Dominic Tracy, O. Carm., a member of the Order of Carmelites and of the North American Province of St. Elias, died at Phelps Memorial Hospital on Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. He was 70 years old. Fr. Tracy was born in the Bronx, New York on June 7, 1937 . He was ordained to the priesthood on February 9, 1963. He was a graduate of St. Bonaventure University in Olean, N.Y., and received his M.S. degree in Pastoral Counseling at Iona College in New Rochelle in 1976. Fr. Tracy ministered at Bellevue Hospital in NYC, Transfiguration Church in Tarrytown, Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Middletown and St. Simon Stock in the Bronx. He also taught at Nativity BVM High School in Pottsville, PA. and resided at the Cloud Home. During his lifetime, he served as Chief Chaplain at Middletown Psychiatric Center, Master of Students at Georgetown University Hospital and Chaplain at Our Lady of the Scapular Church in NYC, Bellevue Hospital, Georgetown University Hospital and the V.A. Medical Centers in Beacon and Montrose, New York. He also served as Pastor at Our Lady of the Scapular in Unionville, Mt. Carmel Parish in Middletown, Our Lady of the Scapular-St. Stephen's Church in NYC. He resided at Transfiguration Priory in Tarrytown until his death. He is survived by his sisters: Dolores Andreala (Anthony), Jane Frisenda and Ann Buckley and a brother, Michael Tracy, as well as many close nieces and nephews.

Burial will be in the Carmelite Cemetery on Carmelite Drive in Middletown, NY. Memorial contributions may be made to the Carmelite Education Fund, P.O. Box 868, Carmelite Dr., Middletown, NY 10940.